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I downloaded the whole RedHat 6.1 distribution on my hard drive. I downloaded boot-RHEA-1999:044.img as well as updates-RHEA-1999:045.img and wrote them to floppy. When I boot up I only am able to run with the text installer (no GUI no matter what) I've tried 'linux updates', 'linux updates text', 'text updates test', and many more combinations at the boot: prompt. The installer never prompts for an update disk. It asks me for the language, keyboard, etc. I choose Hard Drive install and it only lists /dev/hda2 (c?) I have a few other partitions and the base/RPMS are on another partition. My partitions are (C - Fat16X, D - FAT32, E - FAT16B, F - FAT32, G - FAT32. I then have 100meg for a linux swap and a 1gb ext2 partition. (13 gig drive). I have the drive in "normal" mode in the bios (as opposed to LBA and LARGE) I was hoping that the update disk would work for me but I was never ever prompted to put the update disk in. I have been trying to install this for days and its been very frustrating. Thanks. Dan Kline dek158@psu.edu
My guess is that you have the linux source files on a partition that exists on an extended partition of type "f" There is a known bug which prevents the installer from seeing the logical drives of a type "f" extended partition. We will be releasing updated boot images and updates disks here in the near future which will fix this problem.